Parapolystichum

Accepted species 30 Documented here 4 Family Dryopteridaceae

Accepted species 30 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Parapolystichum glabellum (A.Cunn.) Labiak, Sundue & R.C.Moran 337 documented
Parapolystichum microsorum (Endl.) Labiak, Sundue & R.C.Moran 129 documented
Parapolystichum acuminatum (Houlston) Labiak, Sundue & R.C.Moran 4 documented
Parapolystichum munitum (Mett.) Labiak, Sundue & R.C.Moran 3 documented
Parapolystichum kermadecense (Perrie & Brownsey) Perrie & L.D.Sheph. 2 below the evidence gate
Parapolystichum smithianum (Tindale) Labiak, Sundue & R.C.Moran 2 below the evidence gate
Parapolystichum acutum (Kuntze) Labiak, Sundue & R.C.Moran 0 below the evidence gate
Parapolystichum barterianum (Hook.) Rouhan 0 below the evidence gate
Parapolystichum boivinii (Baker) Rouhan 0 below the evidence gate
Parapolystichum calanthum (Endl.) J.J.S.Gardner & Nagalingum 0 below the evidence gate
Parapolystichum confine (C.Chr.) Labiak, Sundue & R.C.Moran 0 below the evidence gate
Parapolystichum coriaceosquamatum (Rakotondr.) Rouhan 0 below the evidence gate
Parapolystichum currorii (Mett. ex Kuhn) Rouhan 0 below the evidence gate
Parapolystichum effusum (Sw.) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Parapolystichum excultum (Mett.) Labiak, Sundue & R.C.Moran 0 below the evidence gate
Parapolystichum fideleae (Rakotondr.) Rouhan 0 below the evidence gate
Parapolystichum grayi (D.L.Jones) J.J.S.Gardner & Nagalingum 0 below the evidence gate
Parapolystichum hornei (Baker) Rouhan 0 below the evidence gate
Parapolystichum manongarivense (Rakotondr.) Rouhan 0 below the evidence gate
Parapolystichum nigritianum (Baker) Rouhan 0 below the evidence gate
Parapolystichum novoguineense (Holttum) Sundue & Testo 0 below the evidence gate
Parapolystichum pacificum (Tindale) J.J.S.Gardner & Nagalingum 0 below the evidence gate
Parapolystichum perrierianum (C.Chr.) Rouhan 0 below the evidence gate
Parapolystichum pseudoperrierianum (Tardieu) Rouhan 0 below the evidence gate
Parapolystichum rufescens (Blume) Labiak, Sundue & R.C.Moran 0 below the evidence gate
Parapolystichum subsimile (Hook.) Rouhan 0 below the evidence gate
Parapolystichum tinarooense (Tindale) Labiak, Sundue & R.C.Moran 0 below the evidence gate
Parapolystichum villosissimum C.Sánchez & Labiak 0 below the evidence gate
Parapolystichum vogelii (Hook.) Rouhan 0 below the evidence gate
Parapolystichum windsorense (D.L.Jones & B.Gray) Labiak, Sundue & R.C.Moran 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.